Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Cambridgeshire based Director operating in the Consulting space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
David Holden-White
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
David Holden-White is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Graham Mills
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
Graham Mills is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Daniel Cowell
Director of techspert.io
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About : techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Rupert Wood
Research Director of Analysys Mason
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About Analysys Mason: Analysys Mason is the leading management consultancy focused on telecoms, media and technology (TMT).
Gillian Davis
Commercialisation Director of University of Cambridge Enterprise
Gillian joined Cambridge Enterprise in February 2009 to work as part of the Physical Sciences team. She holds a BA in Natural Sciences from Oxford University and a doctorate in laser applications. Having spent 10 years as an R&D engineer, she moved into Hi-Tech business development in 1997, obtaining an MBA with the Open University in 1998. After running the subsidiary of the US company Noise Cancellation Technologies for 10 years, she took up the post of Commercial Director at Dolomite Microfluidics in 2007.
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About University of Cambridge Enterprise: Cambridge Enterprise helps the University of Cambridge’s researchers & academics to commercialise their ideas for the benefit of society.
Paul Seabright
Deputy Director of University of Cambridge Enterprise
Paul joined Cambridge Enterprise in April 2009 to take up the post as head of consultancy services and is responsible for both IT and business support. In 2010 he was a board member and director of Cambridge University Technical Services Limited (CUTS), a consultancy company wholly owned by Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. He has considerable experience of technology transfer in both the biotech and medtech sectors, a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in chemistry from Manchester. Paul was previously head of business development at Health Enterprise East where he was instrumental in building a successful technology transfer and consultancy organisation for the NHS in this region. Before this he was a technology manager at Cambridge Enterprise for more than 3 years and led its life science team. Paul also spent 5 years as a senior scientist with a Cambridge biotech company developing the its medtech business and has been a postdoctoral researcher with the MRC and the University of Cambridge.
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About University of Cambridge Enterprise: Cambridge Enterprise helps the University of Cambridge’s researchers & academics to commercialise their ideas for the benefit of society.
Jon Harrop
Director of IDTechEx
Dr Jon Harrop BA MA MSci PhD (Cantab) has been a director of IDTechEx since 2012. He earned degrees in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge and has published peer-reviewed academic papers on physics, chemistry and biology in journals such as Physical Review with a focus on computational science. He has worked on emerging technologies ever since and consulted for a variety of companies. He has authored and co-authored dozens of books and reports over the past 20 years from New Intelligent Printing Techniques (1995) to 3D Printing (2020). Jon joined IDTechEx as a director in 2012 and currently specializes in 3D printing, internet of things and wearable technologies.
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About IDTechEx: IDTechEx is a consultancy that provides market research, business intelligence, and events on emerging technology to its clients.
Kimon Roussopoulos
Director and Technical Specialist of Kition Research
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About Kition Research: Kition Research is an engineering consulting firm that specializes in technology audits of proposed products and processes.
Bryn Williams
Director of London and Cambridge Executive Search
Bryn has 24 years line experience to VP level in commercial, operations and finance roles across Tech / Media / Comms VC-funded start-ups and blue chips including: Vodafone Internet Services; Virgin; Pinpoint Networks (Intel) and Universal. Before setting up London & Cambridge with Mads, Bryn headed up the Technology group within a group which includes the UK’s largest Executive Search firm. Bryn has a 1st Class Honors degree in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge University; a further degree in Marketing and is an Associate of the American Production & Inventory Control Society. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Marketing and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He applies his hybrid market network and experience for EMEA and North American clients.
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About London and Cambridge Executive Search, London and Cambridge Executive Search: Technology Media Communications Search
Franco Gonzalez
Managing Director of Franaldo
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About Franaldo: Franaldo is a new type of consultancy firm whose objective is the acceleration of transformations to sustainability.
David Alderson
Director of Cogentia Healthcare Consulting
David leads the Pricing and Strategic Market Access practice at Cogentia, a specialist market access and health economic consulting company. Over the last 25 years in the lifescienes industry, David has worked for GSK, Novartis, and Medimmune (Cambridge Antibody Technology), as well as Mundipharma and several market access consulting companies. Since 2009 David has been consulting in market access, leading projects and teams involved in payer research, pricing, strategic market access, value communication and proposition development, as well as advisory boards and training workshops. David has a MBA from Cranfield, and postgraduate Marketing Diploma (Chartered Institute of Marketing), and is also a Chartered Engineer (IMechE).
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About Cogentia Healthcare Consulting: Cogentia Healthcare Consulting, provides market access skills, knowledge and expertise to the pharmaceutical, biotech and device industries.
